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In reply to the discussion: Repost as OP: All this talk of "right to retaliate" and "insurgents" is just legalistic twaddle [View all]John2
(2,730 posts)have every right to defend themselves. We only have a truce with North Korea. We still have troops facing each other, infact I was stationed on the border with North Korea. A terrorist organization attacked the U.S. and killed her citizens. It bought down major buildings in our most populous city and it affected our economy. It was similar to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Congress gave the President authorization to go after the individuals that did it with any means.
The only thing we agree with is the attack on Iraq but the Taliban refused to turn over Ben Laden. So we attacked. He fled Afghanistan and was later killed in Pakistan. They claimed they didn't know where he was, but it didn't fool me. They didn't believe their Government or their citizens. So the President took him out. They were harboring a Terrorist. If the American citizen in the U.S. was innocent of charges, then he should have remained in the U.S. and faced charges but he fled to a country where he thought that he would be safe. That is how it goes when you have the most powerful military in the world. That is reality. I don't think any country except fanatics would be stupid enough to go to War and give the U.S. an excuse to send their country back to the Stone Age!